Hi everybody,

I am trying to read the html source of a web page, and finding all the
thumbnails and linked addresses within.

The code below works, but with one strange exception: if I test it on a
html page, I get all the links except for one.

So to test and debug it, I took out that html line, and stuck it in a
test example. Whatever I do, I only get the last occurrence. Even though
the first two match the expression, they are not returned.

I always seem to get only the last one - if I delete it, I get the last
one from the newly formed string.

The regular expression tests for the following:
       <a href="(1)"><img src="(2)"></a>
It takes into account the fact that there may be other stuff within (like
border, height, width, ...). (1) and (2) are the addresses I should
receive.

Here is the code:
--- code ---
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class RegexTest
{

    public RegexTest()
    {
        String html =
            "<a href=\"http://www.domain.com/\"><img src=\"domain.gif
\" alt=\"Domain\"></a>" +
            "</td><td align=center valign=middle width=\"33%\">" +
            "<a href=\"http://www.domain.org/\"><img border=0 width=
130 height=70 src=\"domain.jpg\" " +
            "alt=\"Domain\"></a></td></tr></table></td>" +
            "<a href=\"http://www.domein.be/\"><img border=0 width=
130 height=70 src=\"domein.gif\" " +
            "alt=\"Domein\"></a></td></tr></table></td>";
        String expression = "<a.*href=\"([^\"]*)\".*>.*<img.*src=\"([^
\"]*)\".*>.*</a>";
        Pattern p = Pattern.compile(expression);
        Matcher m = p.matcher(html);
        while (m.find())
        {
            System.out.println("Found a match!");
            System.out.println("  -> href: " + m.group(1));
            System.out.println("  -> isrc: " + m.group(2));
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        new RegexTest();
    }

}
--- /code ---

I do not understand why only the last match is returned - can somebody
please clarify this, or point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance,

JayCee